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Usage examples of senecan.

Once strong and free in the plays of Aeschylus and his compeers, hampered and constantly under guidance but still dignified and noble in the Senecan drama, Tragedy now found herself debased and almost caricatured in the English Interlude stage.

It will serve as an illustration of the kind of tragedy that was being evolved from Senecan models by plodding uninspired Englishmen before Marlowe flung his flaming torch amongst them.

Clearly the only hope of dramatic advance for disciples of the Senecan school lay in improved dialogue.

In an earlier chapter we dealt with the divergence of that play from the English Senecan school of tragedy.

We shall find, in fact, that tragedy continued to borrow the exaggerated violence of the Senecan school, even when it was most emphatically rejecting its dramatic principles.

Wholly Senecan and dull, it is merely a translation of a French play of the same name by Garnier.

We have remarked before on the tendency of all Senecan dramas to sententiousness and argument, than which nothing could be less poetical.